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Advogato blog for mdekkersen-usmod_virguleTue, 31 Mar 2015 20:47:51 GMTThu, 11 Apr 2002 20:45:22 GMT11 Apr 2002http://www.advogato.org/person/mdekkers/diary.html?start=3
http://www.advogato.org/person/mdekkers/diary.html?start=3 What a <b>bad</b> day. Actually, make that two bad days. Some
people simply don't get it, and will not even make an effort to do
so. First of all, I didn't get to finish the stuff I was working on,
but instead had to babysit a totally clueless person on a middleware
project. Now, if there was actually any hope of the individual in
question grasping what it is all about, that would not be too bad,
but there is no hope at all for this guy. What have I done to
deserve this? I don't know.<p>People don't want to leave me alone to
do my job, and am just getting hassled. I wonder how the thought
process goes:<i>"Oh - I'm totally fucking bored out of my skull.
What shall I do? I know!! Let's go and hassle someone!! Maybe that
way, I will not be the only one looking like a total
dickhead."</i><p>Anyway....<p> <a href="http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20020329" >This</a>
comes to mind.<p> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 18:19:18 GMT8 Apr 2002http://www.advogato.org/person/mdekkers/diary.html?start=2
http://www.advogato.org/person/mdekkers/diary.html?start=2Got a lot of little nagging stuff done today - paperwork
and related kinds of trash. Am also penguinizing a <a href="http://athome.compaq.com/default.asp?ProductLineId=440&page=families" >Compaq
Presario 2700</a>, but it is not going all that smooth.
This machine does <b>not</b> like Linux.
<p>
The victim (hapless co-worker) needs VMWare with XP Pro,
and since this machine is not happy with Linux, the VMWare
installation process is pretty painful. The modem
is crap, the sound settings don't seem to stick for some
reason, the ext3 disk decided that it is ext2, NFS mounts
are spotty at best.
<p>
Putting the final touches on the Community Council
proposal for Openoffice - hopefully get it out of the way
tonight. <p>
Really need to finish the Linux Desktop setup here at work
- most of it ready, but ran into some weird-ass bugs - KDM
totally locks up the server when a remote connection is
made to it - requiring a hard reset. bugged it, and was
informed this was impossible. Tried on 2 different
machines, same results. XDM works fine, so will just go
with that. I suspect the particular kernel i'm using is
the culprit (2.4.16-64GB-SuSE). nss_ldap is giving me a
<i>different</i> set of problems, is basically not getting
stuff out of LDAP for me - don't really have the time to
sort that out, so will set up a central set of files
somewhere to get that working, and play with nss_ldap
later on.
<p>
<a href="http://www.openafs.org" >OpenAFS</a> works like
charm so far - am seriously impressed
with this particular system. Next stop - the
desktops.<p>If anybody actually reads this, and is
wondering about the rambling: I am setting up a <a href="http://cimu.gov.mt/proof of concept
studies.asp" >Proof of Concept desktop environment</a> (no,
I didn't do the crappy writeup) that is mainly based on
Linux.
30 Desktops (our whole unit) will use a thin-client like
desktop, running KDE, OpenOffice, Notes (Either via
CrossOver Office, if that proves unworkable on a large
scale, via Citrix) and some other assorted applications.
All this will run on a 100% Linux back-end.<p>We will use
this for a few months, and is successfull, we will suggest
other departments and ministries to start using this.
getting in touch with <a href="http://www.suse.de/en" >SuSE</a> is like pulling
teeth though, and likewise <a href="http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/800.html" >IBM</a>.
The only really responsive company
so-far was <a href="http://www.codeweavers.com" >CodeWeavers</a> - hats
of to those people, they do a great job.<p>I hope to get
the whole backend production-ready by tomorrow.
Sun, 7 Apr 2002 20:15:41 GMT7 Apr 2002http://www.advogato.org/person/mdekkers/diary.html?start=1
http://www.advogato.org/person/mdekkers/diary.html?start=1 Came across <a href="http://www.opencyc.org/" >this</a> just now.
Interesting. I wonder if it understands what makes women tick &lt;--
that would the ultimate killer app<p> Sat, 6 Apr 2002 21:28:48 GMT6 Apr 2002http://www.advogato.org/person/mdekkers/diary.html?start=0
http://www.advogato.org/person/mdekkers/diary.html?start=0Well, it should be telling that as soon as I sign up for my account,
the connection to the server keels over. Oh well.<p>Just finished
the first draft for the OpenOffice.org Community Counsil. I
<b>really</b> hope that Sun will take note of this - we are so fed
up with the incessant stream of BS coming from that particular
company.<p>